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en-usThu, 18 Jan 2018 22:13:04 GMTFocus Forum15How Regulations Made California&#x27;s Fires Worsehttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3623749/posts
After raging through almost all of December, the so-called Thomas fire, California&#x27;s largest wildfire ever recorded, was finally contained on January 12. While the worst is behind us (for now), the fact that last year&#x27;s wildfires so violently spun out of control puts the spotlight on the Golden State&#x27;s government and its lack of fire prevention measures. The fires across the state caused unprecedented damage and loss of life. Unsurprisingly, California governor Jerry Brown was quick to pin the blame on climate change for the forest fires&#x27; ferocity and extraordinary longevity this season. Whatever truth there may be to this,...American Thinker.comhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3623749/posts#commentThu, 18 Jan 2018 22:13:04 GMTEnvironmental group, homeowners sue Illinois Tollway over proposed Route 53 extensionhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3622843/posts
A Lake County environmental group on Thursday sued the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority to stop it from spending any more money to study an extension of Route 53. The lawsuit, filed in Lake County Circuit Court in Waukegan by Livable Lake County and six area homeowners, alleges the Tollway failed to abide by state law in pursuing the controversial project. Specifically, the lawsuit claims that the Tollway violated the Illinois Toll Highway Act by failing to get proper authorization for the corridor from the Illinois legislature and not holding required public hearings. Anthony Vega, a representative for Livable Lake...The Lake County News-Sunhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3622843/posts#commentTue, 16 Jan 2018 12:02:45 GMTThe Environmentalist Lobby Attacks Green Teahttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3620676/posts
A debate has been raging for years over whether the world&#x92;s most widely used herbicide, glyphosate, is carcinogenic. Like so many other issues relating to the environment, the discussion has been marked not by sober scientific analysis and debate, but instead by zealotry, frivolous lawsuits, and political pandering to extremists. Meanwhile, mounting evidence against alleged cancer links goes ignored.For a time it seemed that reason would triumph, but the anti-glyphosate lobby recently struck again, this time targeting tea of all things. The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has sued major US tea producer Bigelow Inc. over the presence of trace amounts...Townhall.comhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3620676/posts#commentTue, 9 Jan 2018 01:48:27 GMT[Catholic Caucus] PETITION: Remove the &#x91;crucified cow&#x92; on display in Catholic church
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A &#x93;crucified cow&#x94; has been erected as &#x93;art&#x94; at the center of a consecrated Catholic church in the Belgian town of Borgloon. Local Catholics are urging the local bishop to have it removed and offer public prayers of reparation, but so far it has remained in place.The &#x93;art&#x94; exhibit by Tom Herck is to be displayed until early December in the small parish church of Saint John the Baptist.The &#x93;artist&#x94; went through the grueling process of actually nailing the 500 kg corpse of a cow to a cross before covering it with silicone paint. The cow on the cross,...Life Petitionshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3607696/posts#commentFri, 24 Nov 2017 22:13:01 GMTWhere Does Spokane Green Group&#x92;s Support Come From?https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3597148/posts
Democrats in Washington state, like their counterparts in the other Washington, don&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;t always think the law applies to them. They can create elaborate procedures to trip up Republicans in, say, election law. But those requirements are quite optional where they are concerned.Part of this is they see themselves as the good guys, fighting for right &#xE2;&#x80;&#x93; no matter how many jobs are lost, how much damage is done to the economy or how little the measure does to help the environment. If they have to bend a few rules to make it happen &#xE2;&#x80;&#x93; hey, it was the right thing...Townhall.comhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3597148/posts#commentSat, 21 Oct 2017 13:15:05 GMTEPA&#x27;s Pruitt moves to end Obama-era practice of &#x27;sue and settle&#x27; with environmentalistshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3596229/posts
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt&#xE2;&#x80;&#x8B; moved Monday to end a controversial practice known as &#xC2;&#x93;sue and settle,&#xC2;&#x94; which critics said was used during the Obama administration to cut deals with environmental groups leading to new regulations. &#xC2;&#x93;The days of regulation through litigation are over,&#xC2;&#x94; Pruitt said in a statement, announcing a new EPA directive. Republicans, including Pruitt, had fought with the Obama administration in court over what they described as a back-room practice that led to more red tape. They claimed the EPA routinely entered into consent decrees with environmental groups that had sued the agency, in turn leading to new...Fox Newshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3596229/posts#commentWed, 18 Oct 2017 20:37:08 GMTEnvironmentalists Sue To Give River Human Rightshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3588932/posts
An environmental group is filing the first lawsuit of its kind on Sept. 26 in the U.S., attempting to force the state of Colorado to recognize the &#x93;legal rights&#x94; of the Colorado River and the surrounding ecosystem. Activist organization Deep Green Resistance (DGR) has signed on as the river&#x92;s &#x93;next friends&#x94; in Colorado River v. State of Colorado. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is a legal adviser in the case, according to a CELDF press release.Daily Caller News Foundationhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3588932/posts#commentMon, 25 Sep 2017 19:04:41 GMTA Few Busybodies Have Destroyed A Dream For NYChttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3586540/posts
The collapse of Barry Diller&#x92;s Pier 55 dream is without parallel in the annals of willful, malicious New York City obstructionism. There&#x92;s no glimmer of hope, no encouraging lessons to be drawn, no down-the-road silver lining. Diller&#x92;s reasonable decision to walk away from a vision that had already cost him tens of millions of dollars more than he&#x92;d planned, and which might well never be built even had he sunk in tens of millions of dollars more , is a civic tragedy of Shakespearean scope. We&#x92;re left with the oft-repeated, defining word of &#x93;King Lear&#x94; &#x97; nothing. And, as in...NY Posthttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3586540/posts#commentSun, 17 Sep 2017 14:40:18 GMTLoving Animals to Deathhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3570343/posts
We need to sell more rhino horns, quickly. That may be the only way to save rhinos from extinction. Today, rhinos vanish because poachers kill them for their horns. Businesses turn their horns into ornaments or quack health potions. Some horns sell for $300,000. No wonder poachers risk their lives for one. How do you fight an incentive that strong? Flood the market! That&#x27;s a solution suggested by Matthew Markus. Markus&#x27;s biotech company can make artificial rhino horn in a laboratory that&#x27;s virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. Put enough of that lab-grown horn on the market and supply and...Townhall.comhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3570343/posts#commentWed, 19 Jul 2017 15:47:25 GMTRussia&#x92;s War on Fracking: Threatened by low oil prices, Putin covertly supports anti-frackershttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3253572/posts
As a senior archivist for the KGB&#x92;s foreign-intelligence directorate, Vasili Mitrokhin had access to a treasure trove of information. He unveiled those secrets after defecting to Britain in 1992. One such secret concerned the &#x93;active measures&#x94; &#x97; the lies &#x96; the KGB had used against the West during the Cold War. In the 1980s, for example, the KGB spread a couple of particularly pernicious rumors. It claimed the United States had manufactured the AIDS virus and that rich Americans were murdering children in the Third World for organ-harvesting purposes. Framed by faux science and ideologically screened &#x93;experts,&#x94; and harnessing anti-American...National Reviewhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3253572/posts#commentTue, 3 Feb 2015 16:17:31 GMTUS Environmentalists May Have Secretly Taken Russian Cash
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House lawmakers want the Trump administration to investigate reports that a wealthy foundation used an offshore shell company to give millions of dollars to environmental activists opposed to U.S. energy development. &#x93;If you connect the dots, it is clear that Russia is funding U.S. environmental groups in an effort to suppress our domestic oil and gas industry, specifically hydraulic fracking,&#x94; Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith said Friday. Smith and Texas Republican Rep. Randy Weber asked Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to investigate whether or not environmentalists were funneling money to U.S. environmental groups through a Bermuda-based shell company. Republicans are pitching...The Daily Callerhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3568163/posts#commentMon, 10 Jul 2017 20:23:07 GMTEXCLUSIVE: Dem Super-Lobbyist Podesta Got $170K To End US Sanctions On Russian Bankhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3532280/posts
Democrat super-lobbyist Tony Podesta was paid $170,000 over a six-month period last year to represent Sberbank, Russia&#x92;s largest bank, seeking to end one of the Obama administration&#x92;s economic sanctions against that country, The Daily Caller News Foundation&#x92;s Investigative Group has learned. Podesta, founder and chairman of the Podesta Group, is listed as a key lobbyist on behalf of Sberbank, according to Senate lobbying disclosure forms. His firm received more than $24 million in fees in 2016, much of it coming from foreign governments, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.Daily Caller News Foundationhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3532280/posts#commentTue, 7 Mar 2017 12:59:08 GMTThis Earth Day, Remember How Often Environmental Alarmists Are Wronghttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3546476/posts
Today is the 47th annual Earth Day. On this day, it is worth reflecting on how completely, totally wrong environmental alarmists often are. Few things tell us more about the environmental movement&#x97;where it&#x92;s been and, more importantly, where it is now&#x97;than its dismal track record in the predictive department.Case in point: Paul Ehrlich, who is as close to a rock star as you&#x92;re apt to find among environmentalists. Ehrlich is most famous for his 1968 book &#x93;The Population Bomb,&#x94; in which he famously predicted that, during the 1970s and 1980s, humanity would suffer mass famine and starvation due to overpopulation....The Federalisthttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3546476/posts#commentSun, 23 Apr 2017 02:02:18 GMTWho values land as sacred? Ranchers, not environmentalistshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3530084/posts
There is no practical rationale behind any federal agency having a private army to bully, extort and ultimately endanger American citizens. When it comes to disparate groups of protesters who claim to value the land, the line is drawn definitively between the raucous, violent rabble that descended upon the Cannonball River in North Dakota and the orderly numbers that arrived at Malheur Wildlife Refuge and the Bundy Ranch in Nevada. Let&#x92;s list the differences, shall we?Canada Free Presshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3530084/posts#commentWed, 1 Mar 2017 00:25:24 GMTOil advocate: Industry under assault in NM; state is prime target for environmentalistshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3529571/posts
SANTA FE &#x97; Opposition to the shale oil extraction process known as fracking is growing, particularly among minorities, threatening the political viability of the oil industry in New Mexico, an oil and gas industry expert told state lawmakers Thursday. Claire Chase, the government affairs director for Mack Energy of Artesia, said while state government is heavily reliant on oil revenues, New Mexico is the most vulnerable state in the nation to increasing opposition to fracking and fossil fuels in general. She said a new culture of protests and activism has the oil and gas industry in its sights. Chase said...Roswell Daily Recordhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3529571/posts#commentMon, 27 Feb 2017 18:12:58 GMTEnvironmentalists Vacated From Standing Rock Protest Site Leave Tons of Toxic&#xA0;Wastehttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3522675/posts
It has been consistently evident that left-wing environmentalists and their professionally unemployed protesters are the most hypocritical bunch of moonbats around the drum circle of social and economic stupidity.Conservative Treehousehttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3522675/posts#commentWed, 8 Feb 2017 17:29:02 GMTMassive Cleanup Underway Where Environmentalists Camped for Pipeline Protest
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A cleanup to prevent an &#x22;environmental disaster&#x22; is underway at a protest camp near the Dakota Access Pipeline. The camp had been occupied by thousands of environmentalists and Native Americans who were demonstrating against the pipeline project. It was the Native Americans who requested help with the cleanup, as massive amounts of garbage, human waste, teepees, and abandoned vehicles must be removed before the spring thaw when flooding is expected.PJ Mediahttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3521871/posts#commentMon, 6 Feb 2017 15:36:52 GMTGreens ready for Trump warhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3508031/posts
Environmental groups are ready for a fight with President-elect Donald Trump. Trump&#x92;s victory in November&#x92;s presidential election was a shock to the green movement, which is now consolidating opposition to a GOP-controlled government bent on undoing President Obama&#x92;s environmental agenda. If the initial reaction was depression and despair, environmental activists now sound energized to take on Trump. &#x22;Our goal is to channel that sense of outrage into political pressure,&#x22; said Jamie Henn, the co-founder of climate group 350.org.The Hillhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3508031/posts#commentSun, 25 Dec 2016 05:19:20 GMTTrump&#x27;s EPA Pick Spooks Liberals and the Environmental Lobbyhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502537/posts
Liberals and the environmental left have gone into a tizzy over the selection of Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt as Donald Trump&#x27;s pick to head of the Environmental Protection Agency. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi says the Pruitt nomination must be blocked &#x22;for the sake of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the planet we will leave our children.&#x22; New York AG Eric Schneiderman says Pruitt is a &#x22;dangerous and an unqualified choice.&#x22; Independent socialist senator Bernie Sanders declares the Pruitt pick is not only dangerous but also &#x22;sad.&#x22; The League of Conservation Voters calls Pruitt not...The Weekly Standardhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3502537/posts#commentThu, 8 Dec 2016 00:49:14 GMTGovernment coddling pipeline protesters with $7million taxpayer dollarshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3501280/posts
Meanwhile, it&#x92;s high time for a new slogan. Call it, &#x91;Save the Environment&#x85;from &#x91;environmental&#x92; protesters and the U.S. Army Corps Engineers In yesteryears Hollywood got it right when it portrayed native people as being on to government authorities whom they described as: &#x93;two-faced&#x94; and wont to &#x93;speak with a forked tongue&#x94;. The governments of later generations may have fooled the masses with their doublespeak and campaign promises that melt like the snow in spring, but it&#x92;s all but impossible to fool a people who routinely faced the elements and followed herds to keep their families fed.Canada Free Presshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3501280/posts#commentSun, 4 Dec 2016 14:46:36 GMTWhen Will Africa Get Healthy and Prosperous? (How Western envirnmantalists keep Africa poor)https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3500292/posts
Africa is still battling &#x93;transitional periods,&#x94; from slavery and colonialism, to neocolonialism and eco-imperialism. Its wars, diseases and suffering will never end until we stop having greedy leaders who only care about their families, cronies and tribal members. The continent has enough natural resources to bring peace, health and prosperity to nearly everyone. And yet 90% of Africans still lack electricity and basic necessities, while corrupt leaders who could help transform our nations embezzle billions and leave parents and children starving and poor. From Rwanda and Liberia to the Sudan and Uganda, we see every day the horrible effects of...Townhallhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3500292/posts#commentThu, 1 Dec 2016 18:07:57 GMTEnvirofascists in D.C. Want Food Rationing for the &#x22;Environment&#x22;https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3496723/posts
The average person may oppose the left, but he fails to grasp how extreme its agenda is. Every new insane policy is treated as an extreme. It&#x27;s not an extreme. The extreme is inconceivable. It can only be gathered from histories of successful leftist regimes like Stalin&#x27;s Soviet Union. What we think of as an extreme is just the next step on the ladder that the left is building. Here&#x27;s the next step. A group of researchers in Oxford University, England have suggested that imposing a massive tax on carbon intensive foods &#x96; specifically protein rich foods like meat and...Frontpagehttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3496723/posts#commentMon, 21 Nov 2016 12:43:16 GMTDrill, Baby Drill! American Made Energy Makes America Great Againhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3495216/posts
Drill, Baby Drill! American Made Energy Makes America Great Again Permian, ANWR, Prudhoe, Bakkan&#xE2;&#x80;&#xA6;. and so much more. NOW is the time to shut off the Saudi oil cartel flow valve and develop our own God-given natural resources. The only excuse not to become energy independent is a political excuse. The inherent link between energy and security, and energy and prosperity, is real and recognized by every American except sketchy politicians and deceived faux environmentalists. We have the resources, we have the technology, we have the manpower. America has the highest environmental and worker safety standards in the world&#xE2;&#x80;&#xA6; it&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s...Facebookhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3495216/posts#commentThu, 17 Nov 2016 02:40:52 GMTWill next week&#x92;s U.S. elections lead to violence? Here&#x92;s what environmental extremists can teach us.https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3487671/posts
As we enter the final stretch of a uniquely contentious U.S. presidential race, many wonder whether violence will erupt after the results are in. After a similarly bitter contest earlier this year in the United Kingdom over European Union membership,&#xC2;&#xA0;some observers&#xC2;&#xA0;found a&#xC2;&#xA0;rise in racial hate crimes. Will the&#xC2;&#xA0;same&#xC2;&#xA0;happen in the United States? Most&#xC2;&#xA0;who&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;ve&#xC2;&#xA0;worried&#xC2;&#xA0;about this have been focused on supporters of Republican nominee Donald Trump. But this year&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s minor-party candidates have (as in previous years) also complained that the system is rigged, railing against their lack of news media coverage, their&#xC2;&#xA0;exclusion from debates&#xC2;&#xA0;and the two-party system in general.The Washington Posthttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3487671/posts#commentTue, 1 Nov 2016 15:31:28 GMTFormer Colorado Senator: Steyer Involvement in Senate Contest an &#x91;Insult&#x92;https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212181/posts
A former U.S. senator in Colorado sees parallels between billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer&#x92;s meddling in current Senate elections in the state and his hedge fund&#x92;s efforts to drain a small Colorado town&#x92;s water supply and sell it to the highest bidder. Former Sen. Wayne Allard (R., Colo.) ... In 1995 Tom Steyer descended on Colorado, standing to make millions by exporting the water under the San Luis Valley and selling it to the highest bidder. Draining this particular aquifer would have had disastrous consequences for farms, wetlands and the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Impact from Steyer&#x92;s plan would have...Washington Free Beaconhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3212181/posts#commentTue, 7 Oct 2014 04:22:54 GMT